acompneu ~ # /etc/init.d/vmware start * Starting VMware services: [ ok ] * Virtual machine monitor [ ok ] * Virtual machine communication interface [ ok ] * Blocking file system [ ok ] * Virtual ethernet [ !! ]
acompneu ~ # lsmod Module Size Used by vmnet 30252 0 parport_pc 19540 0 vmblock 9956 1 vmci 39716 0 vmmon 56324 0 appletalk 25260 20 psnap 2696 1 appletalk llc 4748 1 psnap lp 7692 0 parport 18312 2 parport_pc,lp nvidia 9571412 26 ohci1394 24944 0 ieee1394 67652 1 ohci1394 ahci 25996 6 scsi_wait_scan 1280 0 pata_marvell 3456 2 pata_mpiix 3908 0 acompneu ~ # vmware-networks --start Failed to initialize acompneu ~ #
az@acompneu ~ $ emerge --info Portage 2.2_rc44 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.2, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.27-gentoo-r8-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_E8500_@_3.16GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.11.1 Timestamp of tree: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:00:01 +0000 distcc 3.1 i686-pc-linux-gnu [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p28 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.8-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r3, 2.6.2-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r3 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3, 2.19.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=nocona -ggdb -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=nocona -ggdb -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests candy distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms splitdebug unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/mpd /usr/portage/local/layman/gnustep /usr/portage/local/private" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="7zip GAPING_SECURITY_HOLE X X509 a52 aac aalib acl acpi acpi4linux adns agg aiglx aim alsa amarok amd amr amuled ao applet aqua_theme archive ares asf asm async asyncns atm auctex audioscrobbler automount avahi bash-completion berkdb bidi binary binary-drivers bindist bittorrent bl bonjour bookmarks bootsplash branding bzip2 bzlib cairo captury cdda cddb cdio cdparanoia cdr cdrom cgi cli clisp clucene cmake codecs consolekit corba cracklib crypt cups curl custreloc d daap dbus dedicated dga dhcp dirac disk-partition divx4linux djvu dlopen dmi dnd dri dts dv dvd dvdnav dvdr dvdread dvi eds emboss encode esd evo exif faad fam fame ffmpeg firefox flac flash font-server foomaticdb fortran fpx freetype ftp fuse galago gcc-libffi gcj gcl gd gdbm gedit ggi gif gimp git gl glib glitz glslideshow glut gnome gnome-keyring gnutls gphoto2 gpm gprof graphite graphviz gs gsm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gzip h323 hal haskell howl howl-compat html httpd hyperestraier icc iconv icq id3 id3tag imagemagick imap imlib imlib2 inotify insecure-drivers ipv6 isdnlog ithreads jack java jbig jikes jit jpeg jpeg2k kde kde4 kerberos kipi kqemu lame latex lcms ldap libcaca libffi libnotify libssh2 libwww linuxthreads-tls live lzma lzo mad matroska mbox mdnsresponder-compat mikmod mjpeg mmx mmxext mng mod modplug modules mozbranding mozcalendar mozilla mp2 mp3 mp4 mp4live mpeg mpeg2 mpeg4 mplayer mppe-mppc mudflap musepack musicbrainz mysql nautilus ncurses nemesi nepomuk net network njb nls nntp nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs objc offensive ogg oggvorbis openal opengl openmp oss pam pascal pch pcre pdf perl php plasma png pop posix ppds pppd prebuilt-system pthreads pulseaudio python qt qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime rar rdesktop readline realmedia reflection rogue rplay rtc rtsp ruby samba sasl schroedinger screen sdl semantic-desktop server session shorten shout silvercity silverxp skins slp sndfile sockets socks5 solver speedo speex spell spl sqlite srt sse sse2 ssh ssl ssse3 startup-notification stream subversion svg sysfs tagwriting tcltk tcpd teamarena teletext tetex tga themes theora threads threadsafe thumbnail thunar tiff transcode truetype type1 unicode unzip urandom usb v4l v4l2 vcd vdr vidix visualization vlm vorbis win32codecs wma wmf wxwindows x264 x86 xanim xatrix xattr xcb xcomposite xext xface xforms xft xim xine xml xorg xosd xpm xprint xrandr xrender xscreensaver xsettings xterm xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zeroconf zip zlib zvbi" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="de" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia nv apm" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
acompneu ~ # ls -la /dev/vm* crw-rw---- 1 root root 10, 60 2009-10-21 15:24 /dev/vmci crw-rw---- 1 root vmware 10, 165 2009-10-21 15:24 /dev/vmmon acompneu ~ #
acompneu ~ # strace vmware-networks --start execve("/opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmware-networks", ["vmware-networks", "--start"], [/* 55 vars */]) = 0 brk(0) = 0x971e000 access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=186131, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 186131, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb7ec1000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0000\n\0\0004\0\0\0H"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=9680, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f0b000 mmap2(NULL, 12408, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xb7ebd000 mmap2(0xb7ebf000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1) = 0xb7ebf000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libpthread.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0@H\0\0004\0\0\0\314"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=84252, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 94688, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xb7ea5000 mmap2(0xb7eb9000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x13) = 0xb7eb9000 mmap2(0xb7ebb000, 4576, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7ebb000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libz.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\240\27\0\0004\0\0\0\320"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=71136, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 73972, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xb7e92000 mmap2(0xb7ea3000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x10) = 0xb7ea3000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\200h\1\0004\0\0\0\314"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1315180, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 1320560, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xb7d4f000 mmap2(0xb7e8c000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x13d) = 0xb7e8c000 mmap2(0xb7e8f000, 9840, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7e8f000 close(3) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7d4e000 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7d4d000 set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0xb7d4eb10, limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0 mprotect(0xb7e8c000, 8192, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0xb7ea3000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0xb7eb9000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0xb7ebf000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0xb7f0c000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 munmap(0xb7ec1000, 186131) = 0 set_tid_address(0xb7d4eb58) = 29788 set_robust_list(0xb7d4eb60, 0xc) = 0 futex(0xbfb09e90, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 1) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGRTMIN, {0xb7ea92f0, [], SA_SIGINFO}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGRT_1, {0xb7ea9730, [], SA_RESTART|SA_SIGINFO}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [RTMIN RT_1], NULL, 8) = 0 getrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK, {rlim_cur=8192*1024, rlim_max=RLIM_INFINITY}) = 0 uname({sys="Linux", node="acompneu", ...}) = 0 brk(0) = 0x971e000 brk(0x973f000) = 0x973f000 stat64("/etc/vmware/icu/icudt38l.dat", 0xbfb09d10) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=26048, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 26048, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, 3, 0) = 0xb7ee8000 close(3) = 0 futex(0xb7e8ea4c, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x1, [INT], SA_RESTART}, {SIG_DFL, [], 0}, 8) = 0 open("/var/log/vnetlib", O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_APPEND|O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = 3 stat64("/etc/vmware/networking", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0 open("/proc/29788/stat", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 4 read(4, "29788 (vmware-networks) R 29787 2"..., 1023) = 203 close(4) = 0 uname({sys="Linux", node="acompneu", ...}) = 0 open("/etc/resolv.conf", O_RDONLY) = 4 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=200, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7ee7000 read(4, "# Generated by dhcpcd from eth0\n#"..., 4096) = 200 read(4, ""..., 4096) = 0 close(4) = 0 munmap(0xb7ee7000, 4096) = 0 socket(PF_FILE, 0x80801 /* SOCK_??? */, 0) = 4 connect(4, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/var/run/nscd/socket"...}, 110) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) close(4) = 0 socket(PF_FILE, 0x80801 /* SOCK_??? */, 0) = 4 connect(4, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/var/run/nscd/socket"...}, 110) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) close(4) = 0 open("/etc/nsswitch.conf", O_RDONLY) = 4 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=508, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7ee7000 read(4, "# /etc/nsswitch.conf:\n# $Header: "..., 4096) = 508 read(4, ""..., 4096) = 0 close(4) = 0 munmap(0xb7ee7000, 4096) = 0 open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 4 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=186131, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 186131, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 4, 0) = 0xb7d1f000 close(4) = 0 open("/lib/libnss_files.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 4 read(4, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\20\31\0\0004\0\0\0\260"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=38416, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 41624, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 4, 0) = 0xb7edd000 mmap2(0xb7ee6000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 4, 0x8) = 0xb7ee6000 close(4) = 0 mprotect(0xb7ee6000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 munmap(0xb7d1f000, 186131) = 0 open("/etc/host.conf", O_RDONLY) = 4 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=936, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7edc000 read(4, "# /etc/host.conf:\n# $Header: /var"..., 4096) = 936 read(4, ""..., 4096) = 0 close(4) = 0 munmap(0xb7edc000, 4096) = 0 futex(0xb7e90844, FUTEX_WAKE_PRIVATE, 2147483647) = 0 open("/etc/hosts", O_RDONLY|0x80000 /* O_??? */) = 4 fcntl64(4, F_GETFD) = 0x1 (flags FD_CLOEXEC) fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=909, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7edc000 read(4, "# /etc/hosts: This file describe"..., 4096) = 909 close(4) = 0 munmap(0xb7edc000, 4096) = 0 socket(PF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, IPPROTO_IP) = 4 ioctl(4, SIOCGIFHWADDR, {ifr_name="eth0", ifr_hwaddr=00:22:15:0e:59:4a}) = 0 close(4) = 0 stat64("/etc/vmware/networking.lck", 0xbfb09730) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) umask(0) = 022 mkdir("/etc/vmware/networking.lck", 0777) = 0 umask(022) = 0 umask(0) = 022 mkdir("/etc/vmware/networking.lck/D15931.lck", 0777) = 0 umask(022) = 0 stat64("/etc/vmware/networking.lck/M15931.lck", 0xbfb09730) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/etc/vmware/networking.lck/E15931.lck", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_LARGEFILE, 0644) = 4 open("/etc/vmware/networking.lck", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY|0x80000) = 5 fstat64(5, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777, st_size=112, ...}) = 0 fcntl64(5, F_GETFD) = 0x1 (flags FD_CLOEXEC) getdents64(5, /* 4 entries */, 4096) = 112 getdents64(5, /* 0 entries */, 4096) = 0 close(5) = 0 write(4, "jq0ONgAiFQ5ZSgAA 29788 1 X 253879"..., 512) = 512 close(4) = 0 rename("/etc/vmware/networking.lck/E15931.lck", "/etc/vmware/networking.lck/M15931.lck") = 0 rmdir("/etc/vmware/networking.lck/D15931.lck") = 0 open("/etc/vmware/networking.lck", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY|0x80000) = 4 fstat64(4, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0777, st_size=80, ...}) = 0 getdents64(4, /* 3 entries */, 4096) = 80 getdents64(4, /* 0 entries */, 4096) = 0 close(4) = 0 open("/etc/vmware/networking", O_RDWR|O_LARGEFILE) = 4 read(4, ""..., 1) = 0 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=20352016, ...}) = 0 mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7edc000 close(4) = 0 unlink("/etc/vmware/networking.lck/M15931.lck") = 0 rmdir("/etc/vmware/networking.lck") = 0 write(2, "Failed to initialize"..., 20Failed to initialize) = 20 write(2, "\n"..., 1 ) = 1 write(3, "VNLNetCfgLoad - Database file can"..., 279) = 279 exit_group(1) = ? acompneu ~ #
acompneu ~ # vmware-networks --start Failed to initialize acompneu ~ #
I finally found a config: /var/log/vnetlib There was also somewhat more information: VNL_Load - Error loading the vnet configuration, file used: /etc/vmware/networking VNLNetCfgUnload - Requested cache is not loaded VNLNetCfgLoad - Database file cannot be empty, aborting VNLNetCfgLoad - Failed to load database cache with contents of file: /etc/vmware/networking VNL_Load - Error loading the vnet configuration, file used: /etc/vmware/networking VNLNetCfgUnload - Requested cache is not loaded VNLNetCfgLoad - Database file cannot be empty, aborting VNLNetCfgLoad - Failed to load database cache with contents of file: /etc/vmware/networking VNL_Load - Error loading the vnet configuration, file used: /etc/vmware/networking VNLNetCfgUnload - Requested cache is not loaded So, it seems that my network config was empty. I doublechecked this, and the file /etc/vmware/networking really was empty. Strange because I didn't removed the content. On #vmware (IRC), they told me, this can happen on unsupported hosts (i.e. on Gentoo). To reset the configs, vmware-netcfg did not work (see other bug). Then I found out that I also can reset the configs via emerge (didn't know that emerge has such a function). This finally fixed the whole problem for me: emerge --config vmware-workstation
